Snaffles, (Payne, Charlie JohnsonMore Bandobast Collins, London 1936 - Negligible surface wear and soil to cream linen cloth boards, innards fine, no inscriptions, tears or soil. Card laid in stating that the original drawings by "Snaffles" contained in this book will be exhibited during October 1936 at The Sporting Gallery, 70 Jermyn St. London. DJ in acid-free mylar sleeve is a professional reproduction showing only one 1" x 1" bit of loss at foot of rear panel which affects nothing (no text or drawing damaged due to loss). A stunning copy of a very rare offering, MORE than suitable for gift giving. Snaffles was born Charlie John Payne in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire in 1884 and died in Wiltshire in 1967. He developed an early passion for hunting in all its forms, and the Services which, as he tells us, "in those days went hand in hand". For well over seventy years he was to be a keen follower of all types of hounds on horseback, on foot or, in his later years, by car. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

FLEMING, Peter.News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London, Jonathan Cape, [January, 1938. 8vo. Original red cloth by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd., upper board blocked in gilt with the author's surname in Chinese characters, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge red; pp. 384; photogravure frontispiece, 31 photogravure plates, and one folding map printed in red and black; wrappers with a little marginal fraying; internally, apart from a few scattered minor spots a very good copy. First edition, eleventh impression, signed by the author on title-page. Fleming had first travelled to China in 1931 and returned in 1933 as the Special Correspondent of The Times, to cover the war between the nationalists and the communists; 'After reaching Mukden (Shenyang) in Manchuria and taking part in a sortie against local bandits, he travelled south, achieving an interview with Chaing Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the nationalist forces, entering communist-held territory, and finally returning home via Japan and the United States' (ODNB). In autumn 1934, 'Fleming once again set off for the Far East with a far-ranging commission from The Times. After a brief shooting trip with friends in the Caucasus he travelled on to Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the Swiss traveller Ella (Kini) Maillart. It transpired that they both wanted to walk and ride from China to India, and though they both preferred to travel alone, they agreed to join forces. This epic journey of some 3500 miles on foot or ponies, through the remote province of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), with many dangers, hardships, and hold-ups, took them seven months, from February to September 1935. This, the most arduous of Fleming's long journeys, he chronicled in fourteen long articles in The Times and later in his book News from Tartary (loc. cit.). - It is known that Peter Fleming did not sign many books. Yakushi F103a.

1936 Photograph Album - World Travel - ShawIrish Playwright George Bernard Shaw on a Voyage Around the World World Cruise, 1936. Album of photographs chronicling a comprehensive voyage around the world onboard the SS Arandora Star - the voyage taken by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, featuring two rare, original photographs of Shaw, and outstanding images of the places visited, taken by a passenger who was quite likely professional photographer. Contains 261 gelatin silver print photographs, the large majority with embedded numbers and manuscript captions, neatly mounted recto and verso onto 68 black cardstock leaves. Large Oblong 8vo. album measuring approximately 44 x 31 x 4 cm, black cloth boards, solid two-post binding with original wood braces. Photographs measure approximately 15,5 x 10,5 cm.
The SS Arandora Star was a luxury cruising vessel at the time, and earlier in the year had been refitted to accommodate 354 first class passengers (two hundred more in first class than previous).
One of the elite passengers on this voyage was the influential, candid, witty, and highly respected Irish playwright Bernard Shaw who is seen in two (2) photographs being interviewed by Miami journalists, and one (1) photograph on the approach to Hawaii where he lunched with Charlie Chaplin.
[The British Pathé, formerly Pathé News, holds an original film clip of the interview seen in these photographs.]
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion has varied about his works, but he has regularly been rated as second only to Shakespeare among British dramatists; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. Throughout his 58 years as a playwright, Shaw fictionalized many topics in a humorous way. He was a prolific writer, producing 25 major works, and won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
In the 1930s Shaw travelled widely and frequently, most often accompanied by his wife Charlotte. Charlotte especially enjoyed voyages on ocean liners, and he found peace to write during the long spells at sea. In December 1932 the couple embarked on their first round-the-world cruise. In March 1933 they arrived at San Francisco, to begin Shaw's first visit to the US. He had earlier refused to go to the United States of America, describing it as "that awful country, that uncivilized place... unfit to govern itself ... illiberal, superstitious, crude, violent, anarchic and arbitrary". He visited Hollywood, with which he was unimpressed, and New York, where he lectured to a capacity audience in the Metropolitan Opera House. Harried by the intrusive attentions of the press, Shaw was glad when his ship sailed from New York harbour. He used the weeks at sea to complete two plays, "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles" and "The Six of Calais." He also began working on "The Millionairess." Shaw met an enthusiastic welcome in South Africa in 1932, despite his strong remarks about the racial divisions of the country. In 1936, Shaw and his wife indulged in a second world voyage, a voyage which is superbly documented in the present photograph album.
More about Shaw's voyage around the world:
The album is neatly composed and offers superior photographic views from a multitude of nationalities around the world. With his keen eye for capturing the essence of indigenous life in island nations and underdeveloped communities, the photographer presents striking scenes of the daily customs which distinguish the poor and rich, visiting places tranquil and lively, ancient and modern.
The high quality images throughout the album, each numbered, and all embedded captions being in the same hand, suggest that this album is the work of a professional photographer, perhaps hired by the Blue Line. Surely this voyage provided much for Shaw to ponder and write about, and perhaps aspects of it would be found in his prolific writings. He and his fellow passengers arrived in Spain at the dawn of the Spanish Revolution. Their visit to Jaffa came only a few months after "The Bloody Day in Jaffa," a riot that began on 19 April 1936, and being a violent attack by Arabs directed at the Jews, to rebel against British colonialism and the increase in Jewish immigration. [The event is often described as the catalyst to the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine.]
Highlights in the Americas include views Manzanillo and Mazatlan in Mexico, principle cities in California, and Honolulu, where Bernard Shaw had lunch with Charlie Chaplin. Several photographs capture the tour of Honolulu, though none of the private lunch between Shaw and Chaplin on 26 February.
Online sources place Shaw (and the SS Arandora Star) at Tenerife in April. In Southeast Asia several other charming images show life in the tropics.
The Mediterranean portion of the voyage yields many indelible views from North Africa, showing the people and customs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, coastal Libya and the Middle East. Nostalgic views show Tripoli in Libya 75 years prior to the revolutionary civil war, although at the time under Italian rule. The passengers were at Freetown in Sierra Leone on Armistice Day, November 11th, attending a memorial service illustrated with six photographs. Several photographs were taken there before crossing the Atlantic to tour Colombia and cross the Panama Canal.
The following are some iconic customs illustrate in skilled snapshots:
•the Sultan of Morocco's cavalry guards surrounding his palace at Rabat
•a Hawaiian boy pounding taro root while another climbs high for coconuts
•traditional dancers in Bali
•Zulu war dancers
•devil dancers in Kandy (Sri Lanka)
•riverside dwellings and covered boats of Java
•women washing laundry and infants in the rivers of Batavia
•a spectacular Buddhist temple in Colombo
•a religious procession taking place in Ceylon
Some especially memorable personalities include:
•the elaborately costumed rickshaw driver in Durban
•the young Zulu mother carrying her infant on her back and a large vegetable on her head
•the woman of Tétouan in Morocco completely veiled by her stark white burka
•female market merchants in Tangier hidden in garment layers and wide hats
•a group of Hindu pilgrims from Colombia with pierced cheeks
Trades are being executed in the simplest manual form, in these and other views:
•caravan camels in Jaffa and in Jerusalem transport innumerable boxes
•a Middle Eastern water carrier
•fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee
•fishing boats in a harbour at Abbazia (Opatija) in Croatia
•a handcrafted outrigger in Bali
•tall covered bullock wagons in Colombo,
•a bustling market in Sierra Leone
•open air barbers working alongside a wall in Acapulco
•busy streets flanked with merchants in Tangier
•markets in Kairouan and Tunis
•a modest market place in Guatemala City
•a veritable mountain of peanuts being packed into large sacs at Dakar in Senegal
•bakers selling bread in Tangier
•basket balancing merchants in Batavia
•a coal merchant in Mazatlan
In contrast, a few scenes show commercialized sectors of the Western world, such as:
•the Chinese telephone exchange in San Francisco
•the business center of Cristóbal in Panama
•the Signal Hill oil field in Los Angeles
•Hollywood Boulevard
•pristinely dressed civilians strolling the Ramblas in Barecelona
Antiquity is seen at Athens, Pompeii, Cairo and Lisbon, and also in the haunting photographs of the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo where corpses were preserved and displayed from the 16th century to as late as the 1920s.
A single photograph commemorates the 1936 People's Olympiad, an event which was to be hosted in Barcelona, and conceived as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Berlin. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, just as the games were to begin, the Barcelona event was hastily cancelled.
SS Arandora Star was a British Steam passenger ship, built in 1927 by Cammell Laird & Co, Birkenhead, for the Blue Star Line. Originally an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, operating on a fortnightly service between the UK and River Plate, by December 1928 the ship had completed eight round-trips and was selected for a cruising role. She was soon converted, in 1929 into a fine cruise ship, her home port being Southampton. She carried travellers to Norway, Iceland, Java, Malaya, Ceylon, Egypt, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Mediterranean Seas. A very popular vessel, with her white hull and scarlet "ribbon", she was often referred to as the "chocolate box" or the "wedding cake". In 1936, Arandora Star would undergo had another refit, this time having her Mainmast removed and her accommodation extended to the Poop. She could now accommodate 354 First Class Passengers. In 1937, ownership was transferred to Frederick Leyland & Company Limited, with Blue Star Line Limited as Managers. The ship was by this time re-classified and registered. She was requisitioned as a troop ship in World War II and in June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting German and Italian internees and prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk in controversial circumstances by a German U-boat and 865 lives were lost.
Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 until 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as British Pathé. Its collection of news film and movies is fully digitised and available online today.

Pargeter, EdithHortensius, Friend of Nero London: Lovat Dickson Limited, 1936. 8vo. Orange textured cloth, black spine label. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. This appears to be a publisher's variant binding instead of the more common blue cloth with medallion on the upper boars. The dustwrapper is light soiled else in very good condition. It is fairly plain, just a tan color with the tittle on the spine in black. Author's first book. Fine / Very good.

Ancient Egyptian Paintings. Volume III: Descriptive Text. University of Chicago Press. Hardcover. B000MKLGWO Good; Hardcover; Covers are moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with sun-fading to the blue cloth, mostly along the spine and to the back cover; Clean textblock edges; Heavy darkening to the first and last endpapers (have turned a yellow-brown from age); The text pages are lightly age-toned and completley unmarked; Binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); Blue cloth covers with title in gold lettering along spine; 1936, University of Chicago Press; 209 pages; "Ancient Egyptian Paintings. Volume III: Descriptive Text.," by Nina M. Davies. . Good.

KEYNES, John Maynard.The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936 - Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and double-ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Spine rolled and a little faded with small indent near the foot, ends bumped, overall a very good copy. First edition, first impression. "The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate" (PMM). His conclusion, namely that "the regulation of the trade-cycle &#150; that is to say the control of booms and slumps, the level of employment, the wage-scale and the flow of investment &#150; must be the responsibility of governments", permanently altered the terms of economic debate and considerations of the role of government in managing the economy (or not). Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. [Attributes: First Edition]

DISNEY, Walt.)Director's Manual: Director's Relationship to the Picture and to the Animator. California: Walt Disney Studios, 1936 - Large quarto. Recent red leatherette binding, titles to spine and front cover gilt, single rule gilt frame to front cover, red marbled endpapers. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Statement of authenticity laid-in. Short closed tear to first leaf of Mickey Mouse sketches, slight creasing to leaf edges, light browning to text; excellent condition. Typeset printed lectures, 30 leaves of black and white character sketches on paper of varying colours and sizes and 3 charts. A collection of 13 mimeographed manuscripts giving a fascinating insight into Disney's internal training program for the animators. The collection comprises: two lectures by Don Graham discussing general animation theory and practice; a bulletin discussing "How to Catch, Build and Maintain the Interest of the Spectator in the Picture"; character sketches for general character types such as "Mae West" and "Cute"; written character analyses by Ted Sears for Mickey Mouse ("Mickey is not a clown . he is neither silly nor dumb"), Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy, with accompanying sketches; lectures on the technicalities of drawing drapery and "Assistant Animator Qualifications and Procedure". The Mickey Mouse sketches have Harry Reeves's name to the head of the recto, who worked with Disney from 1931 to 1955. The studio's internal training and internship program was developed in the early 1930s for new animators to foster the studio's distinctive style, but as the script for Snow White was developed in 1935, Disney insisted that the entire art department attend weekly mandatory classes. These classes were taught by Don Graham, previously a professor at the Chouinard Institute. Art Babbit, the animator who developed the character of Goofy, said of Graham that he had "learned a hell of a lot from him!"

Porter, ColeRed Hot and Blue.; A Musical Comedy New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. Original red, white, and blue silk blocked in gilt, spine faded and rubbed, endpapers darkened at the hinge; a very good copy. Copy 167 of 300, signed by Porter. Although without indication of ownership, this copy is from the library of Ira Gershwin.

[Ford, John]MARY OF SCOTLAND [wrapper title] [Np]: RKO Radio Pictures Inc., 1936. 72pp. plus laid-in herald and two single sheet inserts. Small folio (38 x 30.5 cm). Highly pictorial wrappers, and extensively illustrated throughout. Corner crease and some smudging to lower wrapper, light use to wrapper spine and corners, trace of minor dusting and smudging early and late, but a very good, or slightly better, copy. An extraordinarily substantial and expensively produced original studio publicity campaign pressbook for the 1936 film directed by John Ford, and starring Katherine Hepburn and Frederic March. The adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play was by Dudley Nichols. who had teamed with Ford on many other occasions, resulting in such icons of film history as THE INFORMER, THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS, THE LOST PATROL, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME and STAGECOACH. Every possible scheme for promotion is covered (including some frankly rather bizarre ones) and the wide range of promotional paper is illustrated, including an original color herald laid in and two inserts for publicity photos of Hepburn and March. One of the most lavishly produced pressbooks of its decade. Truly fine copies are few and far between, and a decidedly decrepit copy with cuts established an outlier price a few months ago at auction, realizing in excess of $900.

GOLDIE, Mrs. BarreRaven London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1936. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Some foxing on the foredge that encroaches a little on a few of the pages, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Young woman arrives home after a cruise to find that her father intends to remarry, she sets out to find happiness for herself. Neither OCLC or COPAC locates copies.

CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO)San Francisco City of a Thousand and One Delights. San Francisco. 1936. Color lithographic pictographic / pictorial map, 20 1/4 x 45 1/2 inches, professionally mounted on linen. Light wear to edges (minimized by linen backing). Very good condition. Striking stylised panorama of San Francisco by Francis de Foy highlighting the future Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939 with Treasure Island pictured at upper right. Areas of San Francisco illustrated with figures and buildings include the Mission, Golden Gate Park, Chinatown, Nob Hill and Sutro Heights. An unusual and particularly attractive pictorial map with fine lithographic printing. The poster was apparently issued by the City of San Francisco to promote tourism: "Every human sense responds to the cosmopolitan appeals which San Francisco lays at ther visitors' feet. The panorama of her hills rising from encircling blue waters, of the two huge bridges spanning the Bay, of the 1939 Exposition taking shape on the man-made island, is your introduction to the delightful thigns to see and to do that lie within the city itself...San Francisco invites you to share its pleasures and to visit the Golden Gate International Exposition and Pageant of the Pacific in 1939." The only WorldCat holding is at Stanford University (the David Rumsey Map Center).

ISTITUTO GEOGRAFICO MILITARE (ITALY):WW2 NORTHWESTERN ITALY MILITARY MAP WITH IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS: Confini Nord Occidentali. Colour lithograph printing with extensive manuscript additions in pencil and coloured crayon (Very Good, some wear to original folds and light staining in lower right quadrant, manuscript additions bright and clear), 87 x 110 cm (34 x 43 inches). - Florence, 1936 [but with manuscript additions, dating from between August 1944 and April 1945]. A fascinating and unique example of a military topographical map of Northwestern Italy, featuring original and extensive manuscript additions regarding the Italian Fascist High Command&#146;s defensive plan made in response to the Allied invasion of the South of France in August-September 1944. This fascinating and unique piece comes in the form of a large-format printed military topographical map of Northeastern Italy, printed in Florence in 1936 by the Istituto Geografico Militare, but importantly augmented by original and extensive manuscript additions made by the Italian Fascist High Command to depict their defensive formations made in response to the Allied invasion of adjacent lands in the south of France, in August and September 1944. The underlying printed map embraces all of Northwestern Italy, from Milan westwards; southwestern Switzerland; and all of the southern France as far west as the Auvergne and Montpellier. All significant towns, roads, coastlines, rivers, waterways and points of elevation are marked, true to the conventions of its cartographic genre. Running roughly up the middle of the map is the Franco-Italian border, which is the focal point of the piece. The unique highlight of this particular example of the map is in that it features extensive manuscript additions, evidently made for the Italian Fascist High Command during, and in the wake, of the Allied invasion of the South of France in August-September 1944. The Italians, with good reason, fared that the Allies would, as an extension of their successful invasion of the southern France, attack Northwestern Italy. Shown here is the extensive Italian cordon militaire that was formed just behind the Italian-French frontier. Numerous named battle regiments are outlined in coloured crayon, while various lines and shaded areas indicate secondary cordons and fallback positions. The regiments are often named after their towns or regions of origin, while some have more colourful names, such as the &#145;Cacciatori delle Alpi&#146; (Hunters of the Alps). The Italian formations closely cover all sections of the highly mountainous borderlands, from the Mediterranean up to the point where France and Italy meet neutral Switzerland. As the defensive plan, presented in manuscript, upon the present map was of the highest possible sensitively, the map was obviously marked up by and exclusively for the use the Italian High Command in the region. It was almost certainly employed by senior officers for strategic planning, although it is not clear as to precisely when the manuscript additions were added, although they were clearly made between the commencement of the Allied Invasion of the South of France in August 1944, and before the Italian forces depicted were redeployed, in April 1945, to defend Northwestern Italy from Allied attack from the east. Historical Context: Fascist Italy&#146;s Last Stand- Following the collapse and capitulation of Fascist Italy&#146;s central government, in September 1943, Nazi Germany reformed the Italian Social Republic as their puppet state in Northern Italy, with the former national leader, &#145;Il Duce&#146;, Benito Mussolini, as its figurehead. The Italian Social Republic was always under great pressure from internal threats from both the Yugoslav and Italians partisans, in addition to the constant spectre of an all-out Allied invasion of Northern Italy. As it turned out, by the summer of 1944, the Allies, who had conquered all of the Southern and Central Italy became bogged down by the Germans along the &#145;Gothic Line&#146;, which ran along the northern ridges of the Apennine Mountains. Northern Italy was safe from a southern attack &#150; at least for some time. The Allies decided to strike at the Axis&#146;s weak underbelly, the South of France, nominally controlled by the collaborationist Vichy Regime. In Operation Dragoon (August 15 to September 14, 1944), Allied forces successfully in

George Bernard Shaw, Irish PlaywrightAlbum of Photographs Chronicling a Comprehensive Voyage Around the World Onboard the SS Arandora Star with Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw Onboard World Cruise, 1936. Album of photographs chronicling a comprehensive voyage around the world onboard the SS Arandora Star - the voyage taken by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, featuring two rare, original photographs of Shaw, and outstanding images of the places visited, taken by a passenger who was quite likely professional photographer. Contains 261 gelatin silver print photographs, the large majority with embedded numbers and manuscript captions, neatly mounted recto and verso onto 68 black cardstock leaves. Large Oblong 8vo. album measuring approximately 44 x 31 x 4 cm, black cloth boards, solid two-post binding with original wood braces. Photographs measure approximately 15,5 x 10,5 cm. Wear and age-toning to boards, otherwise in Very Good Condition. The SS Arandora Star was a luxury cruising vessel at the time, and earlier in the year had been refitted to accommodate 354 first class passengers (two hundred more in first class than previous). One of the elite passengers on this voyage was the influential, candid, witty, and highly respected Irish playwright Bernard Shaw who is seen in two (2) photographs being interviewed by Miami journalists, and one (1) photograph on the approach to Hawaii where he lunched with Charlie Chaplin. [The British Pathé, formerly Pathé News, holds an original film clip of the interview seen in these photographs.] These two exceedingly scarce photographs (above) show George Bernard Shaw being interviewed by American press agents onboard the British cruise ship SS Arandora Star while in port at Miami, Florida, on 5 February 1936. He was on his second world voyage together with his wife. Shaw is also seen on deck with a group of passengers preparing for disembarkment in Honolulu, where he would meet with Charlie Chaplin for lunch in Waikiki on the 26th of February. The album is neatly composed and offers superior photographic views from a multitude of nationalities around the world. With his keen eye for capturing the essence of indigenous life in island nations and underdeveloped communities, the photographer presents striking scenes of the daily customs which distinguish the poor and rich, visiting places tranquil and lively, ancient and modern. The high quality images throughout the album, each numbered, and all embedded captions being in the same hand, suggest that this album is the work of a professional photographer, perhaps hired by the Blue Line. Surely this voyage provided much for Shaw to ponder and write about, and perhaps aspects of it would be found in his prolific writings. He and his fellow passengers arrived in Spain at the dawn of the Spanish Revolution. Their visit to Jaffa came only a few months after "The Bloody Day in Jaffa," a riot that began on 19 April 1936, and being a violent attack by Arabs directed at the Jews, to rebel against British colonialism and the increase in Jewish immigration. [The event is often described as the catalyst to the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine.] Highlights in the Americas include views Manzanillo and Mazatlan in Mexico, principle cities in California, and Honolulu, where Bernard Shaw had lunch with Charlie Chaplin. Several photographs capture the tour of Honolulu, though none of the private lunch between Shaw and Chaplin on 26 February. The Mediterranean portion of the voyage yields many indelible views from North Africa, showing the people and customs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, coastal Libya and the Middle East. Nostalgic views show Tripoli in Libya 75 years prior to the revolutionary civil war, although at the time under Italian rule. The passengers were at Freetown in Sierra Leone on Armistice Day, November 11th, attending a memorial service illustrated with six photographs. Several photographs were taken there before crossing the Atlantic to tour Colombia and cross the Panama Canal. The following are some iconic customs illustrate in skilled snapshots: the Sultan of Morocco's cavalry guards surrounding his palace at Rabat; a Hawaiian boy pounding taro root while another climbs high for coconuts; traditional dancers in Bali; Zulu war dancers; devil dancers in Kandy (Sri Lanka); riverside dwellings and covered boats of Java; women washing laundry and infants in the rivers of Batavia; a spectacular Buddhist temple in Colombo; a religious procession taking place in Ceylon.. Photo.

SHIPTON, E[ric]. E.Nanda Devi. London Hodder & Stoughton 1936 - First edition. 8vo., xvi, 310 pp, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, drawings in text by Bip Pares, decorated endpapers, publisher's black cloth, black lettered, original pictorial dust-wrapper with slight tears at top, tiny piece cut from front free endpaper, otherwise an excellent copy. An account of one of the "great pieces of mountain exploration" by the author and Tilman which took place in 1934. Hugh Ruttledge wrote the foreword. A scarce title and difficult to find in such good condition. Neate S63, Yakushi 209a. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[Broadside]: Famous Alabama Minstrels. The World's Largest Colored Show... Free Street Parade at Noon [Continental, Ohio: Curtis Show Print, 1936. Near Fine. Large advertising poster. 24" x 36". Text printed in large red block letters (up to four inches), ascribed date and printer from period newspaper advertisements, and printing job receipts held at Ohio State. Old folds with a 1" tear at bottom central fold, several short tears in margins, one small hole, not affecting text. The Famous Alabama Minstrels, billing themselves as the "World's largest Colored Show," traveled small town America from the 1910s-1930s. Not recorded by OCLC, although the theater collection at Ohio State holds a similar poster.

HUNTER, Dard.A PAPERMAKING PILGRIMAGE TO JAPAN, KOREA AND CHINA. [First & Only Signed Limited New York 1936, Pynson. Half leather over boards, 148p., fine solid copy, 50 tipped-in paper samples,68 b.w. photos,index. * * IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE, WITH ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS * * *FIRST & ONLY HAND-NUMBERED, SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF 370* *** *** *** . . FIRST AND ONLY HAND-NUMBERED . . . LIMITED EDITION 0F 375 COPIES . . . SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & PUBLISHER . . CONTAINING 50 FINE HANDMADE WASHI PAPER SAMPLES . . An exceptionally rare and important primary source. It covers, compares & contrasts the three major paper-making cultures of Eastern Asia. Written by the premier authority on handmade papers. This scholarly monograph, addresses papermaking materials, moulds. Documenting his personal pilgrimage to the various papermaking villages, variety of papers, with copious bibliography. . *** With lucid descriptions of the illustrations with full commentaries and descriptions of the 50 numbered individual tipped-in large handmade paper specimens. Printed on Shogun paper, frontispiece, three woodcuts, 65 b.w. photogravures, illustrations, 148 [+4p.]. . *** LOVELY DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY: This copy is signed and hand-numbered in black by the author Dard Hunter. It is also signed in red by the publisher, Elmer Adler. . *** THE BINDING: The work was finely hand-bound & specially designed by Gerhard Gerlach, in black morocco leather spine, with paper covered boards printed in gold, red & black from 18th century woodblocks bought in Korea. The spine titles are gold-stamped with a red Chinese Hanzi/Kanji character "Zhi/Kami" for "paper" and four rule lines ." Book size is a small folio: 23.3 x 28.8 cm. . *** This is a landmark work, covers in great detail the handmade paper cultures of Japan, China & Korea. Including bamboo papers, methods, villages, photos of techniques, materials and a host of other useful and valuable Asian paper-making subjects. . *** WHO WAS DARD HUNTER 1883-1966]: William Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior. Hunter produced two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, preparing every aspect of the book himself: he wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book. . A display at the Smithsonian Institution that appeared with his work read: . "In the entire history of printing, these are the first books to have been made in their entirety by the labors of one man." . He also wrote the classic "Paper Making by Hand in America" [1950], a similar but larger undertaking. . *** REFERENCES: Dard Hunter: . *** . FIRST AND ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 125 COPIES . HUNTER, Dard.: CHINESE CEREMONIAL PAPER. A MONOGRAPH RELATING TO THE FABRICATION OF PAPER AND TIN FOIL AND THE USE OF PAPER IN CHINESE RITES AND RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES. . . *** . FIRST & ONLY EDITION 182 COPIES SIGNED BY DARD HUNTER . HUNTER, Dard.: PAPERMAKING IN INDO-CHINA. . * . *** . First & Only Limited Edition 250 copies. TINDALE, Thomas K. et al.: THE HANDMADE PAPERS OF JAPAN. Limited First & Only Edition 250 copies. . * . *** . First & Only Numbered Edition of 173 Copies . BERGER, Sidney E.: THE HANDMADE PAPERS OF JAPAN: A Biographical Sketch of its Author and an Account of the Genesis & Production of the Book. With a Reprint of the Original Text by Thomas Keith Tindale & Harriett Ramsey Tindale. . * NOTE: Please check with us as we may have some of the above titles in stock. . *** .

Hanns SwarzenskiDie lateinischen illuminierten Handschriften des XIII. Jahrhunderts in den Ländern an Rhein, Main und Donau [in two volumes:] Textband, Tafelband Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1936 - [viii], 188 pp. + 8 ff. plates; [12] pp. + 202 pp. plates containing several hundred illustrations; tall folio (17 3/4 x 13 in.); half vellum, gray paper sides over boards, stamped title on spines. A descriptive catalogue of 13th century German illuminated manuscripts, a standard reference, complete in two volumes. Vol. I (text) contains the descriptions and catalogue, covering the Lower, Middle and Upper Rhine regions, Regensburg, Salzburg, and Franconia. Volume II (plates) contains hundreds of collotype illustrations. Hanns Swarzenski (1903-85) studied medieval German book illumination and trained at various German state museums before immigrating to the US to take up a position with Erwin Panofsky at Princeton. This was to eventually lead to positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, before Swarzenski retired as curator of decorative arts and sculpture and returned to Germany in 1973. A scarce set. Clean and well-preserved, overall very good/near fine, with only minor rubbing at the bottom edges of the covers. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

LawsonLeaf, Munro Lawson, Robert The Viking Press, New York 1936 - First Edition, First Printing. An attractive price clipped dustjacket that has some discoloration to the spine and light wear to the edges. The book is in great shape with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the words "FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1936" printed on the copyright page. Trades and offered considered. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Steinbeck, JohnIn Dubious Battle Covici, Friede, New York 1936 - New York: Covici, Friede. 1936. F First Edition. H Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing book in an exceptional example of the original vintage jacket ("second printing" on spine of jacket). Book is tight and square. Jacket is price-clipped but otherwise bright and crisp; cloth has some spotting and darkening; offset to endpaper gutters and two pages of text from clipping; some spotting to edges. Goldstone & Payne A5. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Miller, Patrick; Garnett, Edward (Introduction); Gill, Eric (Illustrator)The Green Ship (with Prospectus) Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Gill, Eric. Crown quarto - over 9.75" - 12" tall, 182 p., Signed by both Author and Illustrator. No. 22 of 62 bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, total edition 200; with Prospectus; originally published with a separate suite of the eight prints, lacking in this volume. Patrick Miller was the pen name of architect and WWI hero George Gordon Macfarlane (1885-1949) who knew some of those in the London literary circle via his sister, the author Catherine Roxburgh Carswell. Initially an engineer and architect by training and trade, Macfarlane focused more attention on his writing after an illness in 1929; he chose the pseudonyn of Patrick Miller (an ancestor) and wrote several novels, including this one. The Golden Cockerel Press published three of these, and a friendship which Macfarlane had with Eric Gill prompted the two to collaborate on The Green Ship. The bibliography notes that The Green Ship "is a book we should treasure with us, for its constant entertainment, if wrecked on a desert island". With eight wood-engravings by Eric Gill, the most inspired of the wood-engravers of his day - many would say of all of the 20th century - and who perfectly synthesized his religious convictions with his love of the human form. ***DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco with gilt lettering and the publisher's device on the spine, gilt decorations on all three edges, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut, narrow gilt rule on the turn-in, plain endpapers, the Eric Gill wood-engravings serving as the two pages of the title page plus the six chapter headings; 10" tall; (1)-182, Perpetua type (designed by Eric Gill), limited edition of 200 copies total, this no. 22 of 62 bound in full morocco, signed by both author and artist on the limitation page, with Prospectus, lacking the separate suite of plates. ***CONDITION: Overall near fine, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, the leather binding is clean and supple, straight corners without rubbing, the interior is clean and bright (with a stray spot or two of foxing), and the volume is entirely free of prior owner markings; there is some sunning to the spine, a hint of rubbing to one of the spine ribs and to the bottom edges, else fine. The Prospectus is fine, with a hint of toning to the outer margins. ***CITATION: Chanticleer no. 111. ***POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover our costs, please contact us for details. Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell; please contact us with any questions, we are here to help.

DU MAURIER (Daphne).Jamaica Inn. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1936 - 8vo. [190 x 125 x 31 mm]. 351pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue in original yellow dust-wrappers printed in black and red (wrapper town with loss at head of spine, which is darkened, sides soiled). Occasional scattered foxing or spotting, including to the half-title and title, and the dust-wrapper has seen better days, but it is present and correct (with price 7/6) and unrestored. Previous owner's neat ink initials inside front cover. Jamaica Inn was Daphne Du Maurier's fourth novel and her most successful work to date, selling more copies in three months than her previous works had sold in total. The atmospheric tale of eighteenth century smugglers was inspired by a visit to to the real Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor several years earlier. During her stay Daphne and a friend were lost on the moor in bad weather and forced to shelter in an abandoned cottage, before eventually finding their way back to the inn. Much of the novel was written away from Cornwall, at a time when she was struggling to adjust to her new role as an army wife. In her imagination Cornwall becomes a Gothic landscape and the familiar Gothic plot of a heroine under threat in a sinister edifice allowed her to explore themes of freedom and nonconformity. Jamaica Inn was influenced by Du Maurier's early reading of boys' adventure stories such as Treasure Island and her admiration for the Brontes' fiction, particularly Wuthering Heights. Combining elements of both, she created a work which has itself become a part of Cornish legend. [Attributes: First Edition]

LEWIS, Wyndham.Left Wings Over Europe: or, How to Make a War About Nothing. Jonathan Cape, London., 1936. First edition. Octavo. 333 pages.Mounted onto the front free endpaper is a Typed Letter Signed and dated "Sept. 26.1936" by the author: "Dear Sir, I am sending you a copy of Left Wings Over Europe. From time to time statements of yours of an unaccustomed clearsightedness are reported in the English Press, May I venture to congratulate you upon these? The general political tendency suggests that some of the chapters of the accompanying book may be of interest to you. Yours faithfully, Wyndham Lewis". The identity if the recipient of the letter is now known, but the reference to the ''English Press'' may suggest a foreign, possibly German, journalist.Fine in the scarce very good indeed dustwrapper a little nicked and rubbed at the edges and repaired on the reverse in three places.

KEYNES, John Maynard The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1936. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards ruled in blind. With an advertisement for a selection of economics books published by George Allen & Unwin laid-in. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine sunned, gently rolled, and head bumped, a few marks to boards, endpapers lightly browned and spotted, overall a very good copy. First edition, first impression. "The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate" (PMM). His conclusion, namely that "the regulation of the trade-cycle  that is to say the control of booms and slumps, the level of employment, the wage-scale and the flow of investment  must be the responsibility of governments", permanently altered the terms of economic debate and considerations of the role of government in managing the economy (or not).

(History) CONDON, JohnDr. John F. (JAFSIE) Condon's Own Story; Jafsie Tells All! (Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial) New York: Jonathan Lee, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Falk, Nat (Cover Art). 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 238 Pages. Original 1936 First Edition in the original dust jacket! The only memoir published by a true insider of the Charles Lindbergh kidnapping scandal. Dr. John F. Condon (Jafsie from his initials J.F.C.) acted as the intermediary between the kidnapper, Bruno Hauptmann and Charles Lindbergh. He was the only witness in the case who had ever met the kidnapper and therefore was able to positively I.D. Hauptmann in particular. A rare find this condition. Book bears a PO note of purchase amount in 1981 on the inside front board. Slight wear and soiling to spine. The original dust jacket is price-clipped. The jacket also bears several small chips and is worn and scuffed, especially at folds. Overall, a nice copy at the right price.

BALDWIN, FaithThe Moon's Our Home New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Review copy with inserted review slip. Very near fine with paper clip mark on front endpapers where the review slip was originally attached;in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some rubbing and a modest chip on the spine and internal tape repair. A romantic comedy where a headstrong actress marries an adventurer on an impulse and they both try to work it out. Basis for the 1936 movie of the same name, starring Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, and Beulah Bondi. Signed presentation from Baldwin to mystery writer Mignon Eberhart and her husband: "Mignon and Alan with much love from their Faith." The friendship between Baldwin and Eberhart is well documented, with Eberhart sometimes called mystery's Faith Baldwin. Eberhart dedicated her 1935 novel "The House On The Roof" to Baldwin and her companion, Gonnie. Eberhart is considered the founder of the modern romantic suspense novel and introduced female heroines, preceding Agatha Christie's Jane Marple. She was one of the leading female crime novelists in the United States and sometimes referred to as the American Agatha Christie.

Mayo, William James & Mayo, Charles Horace =Portraits - Brustbilder, 2 Photographien mit je einer eigenhändigen Widmung und eigenhändigen Unterschrift. 2 Orignal Photographoien, O.O., 6. Oktober (19)36, 15,4 x 21,2 cm auf 28,8 x 11 cm. Rare set, dedicated by "W(illiam). J(ames). Mayo/ To the Minneapolis Surigcal Society by/ Oct. 6/36" and "C(harles). H(orace). Mayo/ To the Minneapolis Surgical Society Library/ 1936". William James Mayo (1861-1939, Rochester received his M.D. degree in 1883 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then engaged at Rochester in the private practice of medicine and surgery with his father and later with his younger brother Charles Horace Mayo. Though William J. Mayo became the administrator in the practice, no important decisions were made without the full agreement of both brothers. He and his brother performed all the surgery at St. Mary's Hospital until about 1905. From this surgical partnership of the two brothers evolved the cooperative group clinic, later known as the Mayo Clinic. William James Mayo, who became a specialist in surgery of the abdomen, pelvis, and kidney, remained active in surgery at the clinic until 1928 and in administration until 1933. Charles Horace Mayo (b. July 19, 1865, Rochester-d. May 26, 1939, Chicago, Ill.) was the younger son of William Worrall Mayo and was characterized as a "surgical wonder." He received an M.D. degree from the Chicago Medical College (later part of Northwestern University Medical School) in 1888 and in the same year began private practice of surgery with his father and brother. Charles Mayo had the ability to work in all surgical fields he originated modern procedures in goitre surgery and in neurosurgery he performed highly successful operations for cataract of the eye and originated procedures for several orthopedic operations. In 1930 he retired from surgery at the clinic and three years later from administration. He was professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1919 to 1936 and at the University of Minnesota Graduate School from 1915 to 1936. William J. Mayo said about his brother, "Charlie has . . . an intuitive mind, from his knowledge of physiology and anatomy and his understanding of the personality of the patient." At one time he was a member of the advisory board of Encyclopædia Britannica. With his brother, he alternated as chief consultant for all surgical services in the U.S. Army during World War I, serving with the rank of colonel. After the war, each brother was commissioned a brigadier general in the medical-corps reserve. Charles William Mayo (b. July 28, 1898, Rochester-d. July 28, 1968, Rochester) was the son of Charles Horace. He was a skilled surgeon and member of the board of governors of the Mayo Clinic, chairman of the Mayo Association, and a member (chairman 1961-67) of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota. He is noted for a speech he gave in 1953 as a member of the United States delegation at the United Nations. The clinic began to grow in size in the early 1900s, when many young physicians began to apply for positions as interns and assistants. At the same time, outstanding scientists in basic medical subjects were added to the clinic's training and research programs. In 1919 the Mayo brothers transferred property and capital to the Mayo Properties Association, later called the Mayo Foundation, a charitable and educational corporation having a perpetual charter. About 1900 the Mayo Clinic was changed from a partnership to a voluntary association of physicians and specialists in allied fields. In the late 20th century the clinic's staff included about 500 physicians, treating more than 200,000 patients annually.

C. S. LewisThe Allegory of Love (First edition) Oxford: Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dedicated to Owen Barfield Wisest and Best of my Unofficial Teachers. This was Lewis' second book after becoming a Christian.Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 378 pp. Indexed. VG condition with general wear and the page after the index starting but the binding is solid. Lacking dust wrapper. No names or ownership marks.Full refund if not satisfied.Brown 10; Hooper A4

GREEN, Lawrence G.Secret Africa. Stanley Paul, London., 1936. First edition. Octavo. 287 pages. 50 photographs. 12 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. A book of African mysteries.Edges spotted, otherwise fine in very good, slightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, designed by Douglas Moir, with a few nicks. Very scarce in its dustwrapper.